The Iola register., 1887-09-16
STOCK ITEMS.

Stock cattle are lower in Ray County 1t
present than they have been before for
years. They are selling at prices ranging
from "a to three cents per pound.-Rieh-
mond (.ko.) Conseyrator.
Give the breed sows the run Of q clover
field all through the summer il possible. It
is less stimulating than their dry winter
food, and will keep them in health with far
less fever than any other food we have
ever tried. The pigs, moreover, will soon
learn to pick at it and eventually make it
their staple food, giving them growth,
health, frame and size, and fit them for the
purpose of life, be that breeding or fatten-
ing, better than any thing else.-Rur0l
Horida
A petition has been filed in the General
Land office by citizens Of White Pine Couu-
ty, New, accompanied by resolutions passed
st public meeting. asking the Intervention
Of the Land Department to protect settlers
against unlawful appropriation of lands by
foreign sheep raisers. The petitioners al
lege that there are several companies Of
English mostly aliens, having large fiocks
of sheep which travel from water to water,
utterly destroying the grass and contami-
mating the water used by the settlers for
domestic purposes.
A prominent stockman remarks: 'sThe
coming dairy COW will be 'muley.' Long
before the close Of this century the dairy
men OF this country will know the great ad-
vantage of having hornless cattle. =. She
will be IA general purpose cOw;' will give
large quantity OF good, rich milk, rear
calves that can be readily turned into first
class beef. and when too old for the dairy,
can he easily fattened for the butcher. 3.
She will be pure rcd COW. Tho dairyman
OF the twentieth century will, of course.
have a cultivated taste and an eye for the
beautiful All such will, If they can get
them. have red calves"
At about the end of the sixth month the
colt should he weaned. During the sum-
mer and autumn months he should be
allowed to Oe at grass, which. If sue
culcnt and abundant, will be all that is
required as food. When taken up in
the autumn q sufficient quantity of the
best English hay, with two or three quarts
of bruised oats, should be given daily.
Twice during the week the colt should re-
ceivc a few carrots cut up and given raw or
steamed, which would render them more
easily assimiiatcd, and VITA these a little
bran should be mixed. Plenty Of fresh,
clean water should be accessible to the AMI
mal.-.Ndssachmseits Plomghmam.
The four great foods for hogs are corn,
clover, milk and bran. With these fooGs
hogs can be raised economically and at q
good profit, even if cholora does come oc-
casionally. Corn is the cheapest and best
food for fattening, and it is the cheapest to
form the bulk OF the winter ration for
growing stock. Men 60 too far. however.
when they use it alone as n growing ration.
II needs the muscle and bone forming ma
terial of some such food as bran and milk
to supplemental. Clover is the cheap and
practical food with which to form the bulk
of the ration for shOats and hogs during
summer. 1t needs the addition of corn
when summer fattening is desired, and
must BE- supplemented by milk, bran and
corn for the best growth of sows with
young piss.-Erehange.